Tag: VS15

A small number of users are seeing errors after installing or modifying Visual Studio 2017 like the following, Sorry, the installation failed. Please try again. This may also manifest in some cases as, A product matching the following parameters cannot be found: channelId: VisualStudio.15.Release productId: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Product.Enterprise If you open the latest %TEMP%\dd_client*.log file you may… Read more

One of the top requests I kept hearing for vswhere was to also search older versions of Visual Studio. You can now do that starting with the latest release. Even if you don’t have Visual Studio 2017 or newer installed – which means the query API is not even registered – you can use vswhere… Read more

To make the new setup configuration APIs more accessible to developers, we have published the “VSSetup” PowerShell module on powershellgallery.com, making it quick and easy to install. If you have Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 or newer – installed with Windows 10 – or PowerShellGet for PowerShell 3.0 or 4.0, you can run the following… Read more

Visual Studio 2017 has brought big changes to extensibility that allow developers to install extensions to different instances and install dependencies. In support of multiple instances, a fast API was required that tools can use to find and launch Visual Studio and related tools, or to install extensions. I previously published some samples, and now… Read more

We’ve listened to feedback over the years, and while each new release brought changes to the setup experience of Visual Studio and related products, none have been more significant than what we’re doing for Visual Studio “15”. New setup engine With Visual Studio supporting so many platforms and toolkits, one of the goals for Visual… Read more